Luanda - Luanda’s new International Airport (NAIL), located in Icolo e Bengo municipality, will receive the first experimental flights in June this year.
This is to assess the infrastructure whether or not it meets the recommendations of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the NAIL coordinator Paulo Nóbrega said Wednesday.
Nóbrega said so at the end of a visit of representatives of political parties and members of the civil society to the infrastructure, adding that there are two conditions that may prevent the certification of the New Airport.
Among them he referred to the construction of housing in the outskirts of airport.
The visiting delegation expressed concern about the growing number of the houses in the perimeter of the New International Airport of Luanda which may actually condition its certification.
The Angolan government announced in March 2019 that the works of the New Luanda International Airport (NAIL), underway for more than ten years, with China’s funding, was to undergo engineering and functionality corrections to bring the structure up to modernity, innovation and passenger comfort standards.
At the time, the Minister of Transport, Ricardo de Abreu, said that the corrections to the project, running until 2022, would be led by a technical commission.
The new international airport has the capacity to handle up to 15 million passengers per year.
